Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[Fred Bone]

On 23 July 2013 at 16:58, JHC said:

> Bear with me, I think I have this one.
> 
> How do you "see" your NAS unit in your Explorer? Usually, you would have
> (in Windows) "mapped" a specific folder (or subfolder), also called a
> network "share", (technically a "uniform resource  name, URN) from the NAS
> to an available drive letter that you use as an "alias", to simplify
> naming. Windows allows drive letters up to Z: for aliases. Commonly user
> systems only use C: and D:.
> 
> My NAS unit happens to be a Buffalo device. On it I have a collection of
> folders for various purposes, just as I might on any external drive.
> However, as a network device it does not automatically have a "normal"
> drive letter. Two of my folders are "music" and "downloads"; their shares
> are "\\Buffalo\music" and "\\Buffalo\downloads". A URN is cumbersome to
> type, so I "map" a "share" to an open Windows drive letter. I've mapped my
> two examples to M: ("music") and Z: ("downloads").
> 
> Here's the kicker: on many corporate systems, historically users were
> restricted to a small range of those identities, often to drive letters
> only from say J: through N:, because other letters (especially higher
> ones) were assigned for general systems uses. It appears that whoever
> designed GnuCash (at least on Windows, for networked drives) paid
> attention to that old habit. On my system I can save (and retrieve)
> GnuCash data on a location mapped to "M:", but NOT to "Z:". I haven't
> tested all the letters,  but it does seem that GnuCash cares about it.

I have just saved a file to a Z: drive, having first created a new 
directory there. It just worked.

Gnucash 2.4.12 on WinXPPro-SP3.